What would you do with an extra 450 chickens? Cecile Long Steele had an answer that changed the world. In Ocean View, Delaware, the decimal place error that led one woman to found the broiler chicken industry is revered and celebrated, and visitors can find a replica of the coop that started it all in Ocean View’s historic village. The Ocean View of the 1920s was remote and desolate, and Cecile and her husband Wilmer were poor landowners, relying mostly on money that Wilmer earned with the U.S. Coast Guard….
